It’s pretty easy to see shades of Game Of Thrones in Netflix’s new cyberpunk series Altered Carbon, which explores a world in which consciousness has been digitized. For one, the streaming juggernaut has funneled boat loads of cash into the show. For two, there are a shit-ton of characters and they’re all killing and…

“It’s still a game of gobsmacking, devastating beauty, with moments and images that haunt you long afterward. All of its pieces hold up—even now, when its influence is most often touted to describe any old game with ‘big boss fights,’ and Nintendo, of all companies, has realized its unlikely successor in The Legend Of…

This past weekend saw the release of a big, expensive, attention-getting science fiction spectacle on streaming service Netflix, one that had people talking throughout the subsequent week. Unfortunately for the people behind it, that spectacle wasn’t Altered Carbon.

Altered Carbon, a new Netflix series, has a few key themes it keeps returning to. Humans are innately violent, we have a propensity for self-destruction, our senses constantly fail us, and there’s no long-term hope for the species to evolve into better versions of ourselves. These may all be philosophical truisms for…

The 2018 Oscar nominees were announced today, including a nod for Ildikó Enyedi’s starkly beautiful On Body And Soul, which is one of the many new additions to Netflix’s bounty next month. Aside from the complete Ocean’s and Kill Bill franchises, there’s plenty of original content in the pipeline for February,…

It’s entirely possible that Altered Carbon, the new sci-fi murder-mystery series from Netflix, will be amazing. But it sure is hard to tell from this trailer, which makes it seem like someone thought Blade Runner needed combining with the world of Vin Diesel’s xXx universe.

Do you remember the mediocre sci-fi movies Self/less and In Time? Hopefully not, because this trailer for Netflix’s Altered Carbon might be a little less exciting if you do. Self/less was about Ben Kingsley putting his brain in Ryan Reynolds’ body (or something like that) and In Time was about Justin Timberlake in a…

According to Variety, Netflix has given a straight-to-series order to Altered Carbon, based on the 2002 science fiction novel of same name by Richard K. Morgan. The story takes place in the 25th century, when the human mind has been digitized and can be transferred from one body to another. It’s a real saving grace…